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TREATISE ON 



-during wliich time it muft notwitliflanding be kept quite 

 • clean, and as loofe and little poached as polTible ; and in 

 February, before the feeds begin to fpring, let the furface of 

 the ground be gently raked over, removing all mufty and foggy 

 particles they may have contracted during the vs^inter, and 

 throw a little frefli rich mould over them, to replace what you 

 have taken away, which will much promote the future growth 

 of the plants. In this feminary the trees are to remain only one 

 year. 



Having prepared another quarter of good ground in the nur- 

 fery, in the fame manner as for the feed, the following February 

 or March, remove them ; keep them as ftiort time as may be 

 out of the ground, to prevent the fmall fibres withering, and cut 

 away only the downright top-roots ; lay them in drills, cut down 

 perpendicular with the fpade, as diredled for other plants ; let 

 thefe drills be eighteen or twenty inches afunder, and plant 

 them at the diftance of eight or nine inches in the drill ; give 

 them a gentle watering at planting, and continue it three or four 

 times, at proper intervals, if the weather is dry; and here, giving 

 them proper culture, let them remain two feafons. 



In Oclober, as foon as their leaves are tarnilhed, remove them 

 from this nurfery ; and having pruned off, clofe by the body, all 

 the ftrong and ill-placed branches, ftill leaving a number of 

 fmall ones to attradl and detain the fap for the augmentation of 

 the trunk, plant them in another quarter of any tolerable ground, 

 in Unes, three feet and a half afunder, and fifteen or fixteen 

 inches in the line, where they may remain three years, obfer- 

 ving to dig the ground between the lines every fpring. 



